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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

As Holland points out, successful remote learning experiences depend on teachers who know how to create and deliver engaging lessons online and students who have the digital literacy skills to access them. If entire K-12 districts move online, what can schools expect of early elementary schoolers?

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Adapting, Balancing, and Collaborating in Mentor Public Schools

Digital Promise

Mentor Public Schools is a suburban district 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio, which serves 7,650 preK-12 students across 42 square miles. are designing project-based learning units collaboratively. I hope they leave here wanting to create more of these opportunities in their districts.”

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How to Create Powerful Intergenerational Learning Experiences

Digital Promise

Through intergenerational connections and project-based learning, HP Teaching Fellow Kim Mishkin is creating Powerful Learning experiences for students in grades 2–5 at the Hudson Lab School in Hudson-on-Hastings, New York. In this blog post, Kim describes her unique approach to Powerful Learning.

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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

The Delaware Department of Education has added to their 17 early literacy micro-credentials that were launched in 2020 with 12 new micro-credentials to support early literacy throughout the state.*. Teach for America Las Vegas has published their first micro-credential, Solving Challenges Using Design Thinking in a K-12 Classroom.

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How a Major Academic Disruption May Have Sparked a Learning Revolution

ED Surge

We are transitioning to more project-based learning environments where students can explore, problem solve and report their work back to others. How we measure learning is going to continue to evolve. When we focus on skill development, we are really readying them for today’s learning and tomorrow’s as well.

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

Dangerously Irrelevant

Avoid the pitfalls of tech integration – technology for technology’s sake, focus on tools rather than the learning – by being thoughtful and purposeful about lesson (re)design. Sunday, June 28, 12:30pm to 3:30pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Bring your own lessons and units, and we’ll help you make them better.

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Hook Your Students on Dopamine Hits: The Neuroscience of Culturally Responsive Teaching

Edthena

Zaretta clarified, “Social learning is having kids do hard things as a result of being in a group and talking, project-based learning, maker education integrated arts, etc.”. However, this doesn’t mean teachers should simply assign more group work. More resources on culturally responsive teaching.